All Forum Posts by: Rodney Sums

 Registered Nurse here:

It may be more efficient if you reached out to staffing agencies rather than hospitals. Or, ask the hospital if they'll tell you what agencies they contract with so you can call them. Hospitals typically take travel nurses from travel nurse agencies.  They have contracts with many agencies and don't get involved with assisting nurses with their lodging.  Additionally, you're selling yourself short by focusing only on nurses.  We aren't the only ones that travel.  Physicians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, and other medical professionals travel.  

This isn't to say the hospital does not get involved with accommodations for nurses or do any direct hiring.  They do.  Agencies specialize in this.  Medical professionals don't only travel for hospitals.

If you're going to cater to this demographic, get familiar with how travel contracts work.  For example, some contracts allow a facility to cancel a traveler's contract, they don't stay the typical 13 or more weeks you were hoping for, and may avoid your property depending what terms you offer because of that risk.

co-sign what  @Joseph Coleman and

@Bo Bond

If you finance a property as an investment, the lender will insist on that type of coverage to close.  If you convert a primary to a rental, then make sure you have that coverage.  In my experience, it's always been a coverage that came standard with the landlord policy.

 It was cool racking up those coupons when someone else was paying for it (like work travel).  I think they realized people were booking less with them because, to offset the cost of paying for a free night their rates were usually higher than competitors

 I hear you.  The part I struggles with is the chants for rent control. It's unfortunate when residents don't look at the bigger picture and believe the solution is to target the landlord.  Nobody says, "contractor  pricing control, building material price control,  insurance price control, property tax control" and everything else that costs money to maintain a property.  The same person that wants a cap on rent is the same person that will want the AC fixed, even if it means installing a new 5 thousand dollar unit, and won't care you didn't or couldn't raise their rent.  I understand there are vulnerable populations that have limited abilities to increase their income. I don't agree targeting home owners isn't he most efficient answer.

id certainly like for citizens to have opportunities to buy homes and it can be very frustrating when they have to compete with corporations that can outbid them.

 Dang all that stress and he fixed it 😀

I agreed with your points actually. 

It was disappointing to read other landlords think we should spot paint a wall when the tenant wasnt given a spot painted wall.  Especially if your lease specified they could not put holes in the drywall and did anyway. Mines do, and this is why.  

If you didn't already, add an addendum that outlines the expexted operation of the stove and what shouldnt be used on it.  Even if you wouldnt win that argument in court, at least the tenant knows and you wont have a fight over it.

Please share more about the temperature setting rules, what temperatures you specified, and why? On the surface it sounds extreme to tell a tenant what can be comfortable for the.. The only things that come to mind are settings that are too low and may damage the HVAC or too high and damage the floor. I'd like to learn. 

 Exactly. And if I understood your last point, that's what concerns me. It has an extortion feel to it.  Especially when you throw in the petition. What the tenant overlooks is she essentially trying to tell the building owner, and indirectly all landlords, is that you shouldn't have a right to control your own property and that tenants can pressure you to do with it as they see fit even if unrelated to the law or making it fit for occupancy.

imagine how many tenants would like to paint their late Grandmother, late pet, or someone else of significance.  Why doesn't the tenant petition everyone to donate to her ability to buy the building? Nope, let's pick on the owner.

And I say all this as a Lakers fan.

https://people.com/los-angeles-gym-owner-fights-to-keep-kobe...

The tenant painted a mural of Kobe and his daughter, then years later the owner wants it removed. The tenant is fighting.

I'm certain most everyone here has the same stance on this issue.

I can't help but wonder if there's a publicity stunt tied to it. Hopefully they were genuinely memorializing the two while forgetting the lease terms.

The "sign the petition" part is really interesting, and disturbing at the same time.

 PMs I work with don't take partial payments. So they can't just pay the rent and ignore the late fee.  It's along the lines of what another poster said, if they take some of the money, a judge may not evict because partial payments were taken.  

Most PMs I've dealt with keep all the late fees, arguing they're doing the extra work to collect the rent.  I can appreciate that because as the owner youre not the one drafting letters, sending certified mail, burning gas driving to the property to put notices on the door, making calls etc. You just wait and that does suck. I do have one that gives me some of it.  

They have to make their money somewhere so even if they gave you some or all of the fees, they'd have to offset it by charging higher rates to the owner.

 Co sign this. You're definitely going to have to Ozone that unit, minimum.  That smoke gets in to EVERYTHING.  If you have any carpet, that's gotta go.  If they've been there a long time, scrubbing the walls and painting may not even be enough.  Then there's your HVAC ductwork that's been contaminated, circulating that crap.  Even the fixtures can absorb the residue.  Hope you don't have that popcorn ceiling. Just like Bruce said, how long and how much will be a factor.  Did you check the lease they are currently on to see if smoking indoors was prohibited? If so, then you don't need cash for keys, they're already in violation.

 Your comments are always the kind that I like, and get on my nerves at the same time. 😂😂😂 Regarding this subject, I agree with you though. 

I also doubt the sincerity of the post...whether it was intended to advertise something, get attention, start an argument, or something else.  

It is definitely is an inspection and I want it to feel like one.  This is not a "kumbaya" momment. It's also not intended to make tenants uncomfortable.  For me its:

-My way of letting you know not to mess around with my property or violate lease terms, because I'm watching 

-An opportunity to catch what tenants fail to report and gets worse over time

-An opportunity to share their concerns so I can be of better service 

-An opportunity to gauge if I want to renew their lease

It's not a preventative maintenance visit. Someone is coming to look thoroughly at the property. I won't disguise it as something else to be warm and fuzzy. If anything that could look like a lie. "If it's preventative maintenance, why are you looking in the closets?"